School started up again on Monday. This quarter is web design. I am very excited about it. The assignment this week is to find two good web pages and two bad web pages and post the links for the class. Then we are to discuss what is good and bad about the pages. Fun! I’ve had a hard time finding bad webpages. Usually if a page is bad I don’t go back to it. I asked some coworkers today if they knew any bad websites. Two suggested I use out library website. I had considered it before either said anything but felt badly about it but they both said I shouldn’t feel bad. Then one of them offered a link to a website one of her library school profs in her cataloging class had challenged them to try and catalog. And it’s a good bad one too, everything is red. Yuck!
I will be creating two websites for the class. The first one has to be entirely handcoded, meaning I have to write all the code and can’t use a web page editor to do it for me. That will be fun. We have to email the teacher with our site topic by the end of the week. I have been way over thinking it and am having problems landing on a topic. The teacher suggested a personal website to start with so I’m leaning toward doing something about my garden. Writing code is easier than thinking up a topic!
Oh, and I forgot to mention. My final group project for my last class got 24 out of 25 points. My final class grade is an A. Woo!
I am still having eye fatigue but not for much longer, I hope. I saw my optometrist Monday night and she suggested I get progressive lenses, a nice way to say bifocals. The lenses are called office lenses and will allow me to read books and papers and other close up things, and provide a little extra something something for the intermediate distance of my computer monitor so my eyes don’t have to work so hard. I might have them by Friday if I am lucky. That will give me a little time to get used to them. But it is more likely I won’t have them until next week.
My eye has been twitching so often my Bookman has named it “Winky.” He will call me during the day or inquire when I get home from work, “How’s Winky?” To his credit he always asks about me before he asks about Winky. But Winky will be leaving soon and will not be missed.
I found a bad web page today: http://www.readtolearn.org/ Sadly, it’s for our local adult literacy program. I half want to refresh my html knowledge just to make them a new one.
Why do I get the feeling that the Winky joke is getting a little old…?
Oops, I mean, 
It’s easy to find bad websites. Just go to Myspace.
Hope the eyes feel better soon, and hope you got some cute glasses! We are currently redesigning our web site at work; thankfully I wouldn’t suggest it as a ‘bad’ website (although I see plenty of those), and I get to learn some new web stuff. I think we’re going to use Joomla to do some redesign. I like code, but only a tiny bit. I much prefer the magic-button pushing of web editors!
Speaking of bad web pages, have you seen Google’s Cadie page: cadiesingularity.blogspot.com (and like Sylvia said, all of Myspace
Web design = fun!
I have progresssives and love them…..except my eyes have changed again and now i can’t see anything close up!! Good luck with the progressives
and hope you have some fun frames to wear them with! and congrats on your A!
I would be completely stumped if someone asked me to produce a web page – completely beyond my range of abilities. Yay for the A! You’ve really nailed this course, haven’t you? And so pleased to know the eye strain will soon be a thing of the past. And the winky jokes along with it!
Congrats on the final grade, Stefanie! And, have fun with web design. Can’t wait to see what you come up with – you will show us right?
Mella, that is bad. It does say at the top that it is under construction but these days that is no excuse.
Sylvia, oh that was bad!
Really? I have never been to MySpace. Now I am going to have to go just to see!
Daphne, thanks. I don’t do the funky frames very well but I found some that make me look very studious
How fun that you get to help with the website at work. I have not used Joomla but I’ve heard lots of good buzz about it.
wil, oh yes, CADIE’s webpage had me laughing! I loved the spinning pandas. As for the class, I agree with your equation.
Susan, oh I am glad to hear you like your progressives. I like the frames, they are a purple-y copper color. Have fun picking out new glasses of your own. And thanks!
Litlove, there are quite a number of people in class who have never done any website anything and the teacher is very good and patient. Class did go well. I don’t know if that means I will be a good manager. We’ll see how good of a web designer I am. I will not miss the winky jokes.
Iliana, thank you! I will share my websites whether they are good or bad
I’m glad you’re excited about the class this term. It sounds very challenging to me, but you’ve got so much experience with websites, you should be fine. And I’m glad there’s a cure for the eye problem in sight (so to speak!).
I’m glad to hear that the twitching eyes is due to eye strain. I’ve had involountary eye spasms before that are horrible to deal with and sometimes they last for days. I get really self-conscious about them. Good that you & your Bookman can laugh about it. I have worn progressives since my early 30′s and can’t imagine not having them. I wear the contact lens equivalent as well, although with those, I have to wear reading glasses too when I’m tired, or else would have to deal with not being able to see road signs on the interstate (the contacts really only correct for two distances, not three).
I think it’s so cool you’re taking a course on web design. God, I should have postponed library school by about 15 years. And let’s hope that “Winky” soon hops a train to some place far, far away.
I hope the eye fatigue has been improving! And very glad to hear the group project turned out okay–that would have stressed me out.
Dorothy, it is challenging in some respects since I have only ever worked with already existing code. It will be a fun stretch to create my own. And too am glad a cure for the eye strain is in sight
Cam, I am glad to hear you like your progressives, it bodes well for me
My distance vision is still perfect but my eye doctor keeps warning me that someday…But she has been warning me for the past six years so it will be a shocker when I have to start wearing glasses all the time.
Emily, aren’t you a Luddite?
I am looking forward to Winky going away too. It won’t be long now!
Danielle, thanks you! It has improved a bit even without the new glasses, but soon it will be all better. Oh I was so stressed about the group project, just ask my husband!